The 2.20.4 release is a stable release of the GNOME Display Manager (GDM) program with the following bug fixes and improvements:

- The Custom Widgetry code in gdmgreeter was broken, and would not create the /var/lib/$DISPLAY.GreeterInfo file properly. Due to the move away from vicious-extensions and towards GKeyFile, the format of this file changed slightly to INI format with the [GreeterInfo] group. The docs were modified to explain this change.

- Now the default local and remote welcome strings ("Welcome" and "Welcome to %n") are translated. (Wouter Bolsterlee, Brian Cameron, Frederic Crozat)

- If the user picks the default local welcome string to be used as the remote welcome string, or vice versa, then the strings will be translated also. (Brian Cameron, Frederic Crozat)

- Get default locale from LC_MESSAGES rather than from g_get_language_names. Fixes bug #517670. (Ray Strode)

- Honor GTK+ default password character rather than hardcoding to '*'. The docs were modified to explain this change. Fixes bug #477881. (Alexander "weej" Jones)